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Show THE DUTIES OF LIFE. Every "life h2sjts purpose and consequent con-sequent duties. That this is not always al-ways made manifest in its course, only argues the blindness and recreancy of the one who is content to exist and not live in the best sense of the term. Not a plant that springs from the bosom of the earth but 'fulfills some part in the design of creation; and' since the rule applies to the most insignificant items in the divine plan, what reason or excuse can man have to evade the universal responsibility? To merely exist is not to live; it is to caricature and belittle the very name of living. To live to be an active force in the .world's destiny, and whether one be a great or an humble factor in what his time accomplishes, a factor he must bo to fulfill the pur-tosg pur-tosg of his being. All, Indeed, are not endowed with equal faculties; all cannot be 'flaming lights of honor upon the world's highway, high-way, but all can, within the limitations the Creator has imposed, contribute to its illuming. The tallow dip performs Its allotted part as fully as does the lighthouse; either one could not bs substituted sub-stituted for the othir, and if the headland head-land beacon attracts more attention than does the feeble taper, it but fulfills ful-fills its mission, which the other does equally well. -I All cannot be beacons, all need jiot be humble tapers, but' whether fitted for cne. service or the other, there is a part to be performed by each life, and the fact of real living or merely dallying dally-ing out an existence is determined by the performance. He only truly lives whose life means something accomplished accom-plished and something in process of accomplishment. ac-complishment. The life of the humblest blade of grass growing upon, the hillside hill-side is nobler, in comparison, than the man who passes his time to no purpose. pur-pose. The Tablet, Baltimore, Dec. 2. |